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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

John R. Reynolds, Dunwoody, GA (US);

Justin Adam Kerszulis, Foster City, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/15 (2006.01); C08G 61/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08G 61/123 (2013.01); C08G 61/126 (2013.01); G02F 1/15 (2013.01); C08G 2261/126 (2013.01); C08G 2261/1424 (2013.01); C08G 2261/3223 (2013.01); C08G 2261/3243 (2013.01); C08G 2261/3246 (2013.01); C08G 2261/364 (2013.01); C08G 2261/54 (2013.01); C08G 2261/74 (2013.01); G02F 2001/1515 (2013.01);
Abstract

An improved contrast electrochromic polymers(ECP), is a copolymer having donor sequences with a normal distribution of at least one solubilizing donor repeating unit selected from substituted propylenedioxythiophene units (ProDOT) and/or substituted acyclic dioxythiophene units (AcDOT) and a plurality of monodispersed trimer sequences consisting of an acceptor unit bonded between two ethylenedioxythiophene units (EDOT), two methylenedioxythiophene units (MDOT), or a fused DAD trimer, where the monodispersed trimer sequence separates two of the donor sequences. One useful monodispersed trimer sequence is EDOT-BTD-EDOT (EBE). The donor sequences can have ProDOT units bound to the monodispersed trimer sequence. The donor sequence can have ProDOT units alternating with AcDOT units. Useful ECPs can have the structure: Pro-Pro/EBE; Ac-Ac/EBE; or Pro-Ac/EBEwhere x is a fraction between 0.5 and 0.9.


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